Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
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… What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, here's what you ought to say. If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So focus with me on verse 15. you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. So there's an if clause and a result clause with two parts. The if clause is, if the Lord wills. And the two results are, we will live, and we'll look at that in about 20 minutes, at the end. And the second one is, we will do this or that. What does that mean? If the Lord wills, we will do this or that. What does that mean? It means he decides if you do this, and he decides if you do that. and it's always wrong therefore to say if I do this it is in God's sovereign will and if I do that it is outside God's sovereign will. …
… meeting tonight or go to the motel and get a good night's rest. Don't say that. instead you ought to say if the Lord wills we will live I'm 79 I don't know if I'm going to finish this message right neither do you know if you're going to get out of that pew you don't know what is your life it is a vapor instead you ought to say if the Lord wills I'll stay alive for another 30 minutes and do this or that. I mean, that's about as detailed as you can get. Do this or that. If the Lord wills, I'll do this. If the Lord wills, I'll do that. James says, look, you've read your Bible. Now don't be arrogant and talk like you're in control of your life. You're not in control of your life. so don't talk that way So, Romans 9, 15, and 16. The Lord will have mercy on whom he has mercy and will have compassion on whom he has compassion. …
… appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away? So that you ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live and do this or that. You see, God doesn't have to take your life. All He has to do is stop giving it. You understand that? It's of the Lord's mercies that we're not consumed. Life is a gift from God. If the Lord will, we shall live and do this or that. Your life is like a vapor on a frosty morning, like a breath on a frosty morning. Here for a moment and then gone. You see, listen, accept death as a decided fact. It is a stubborn fact. It is an uncertain fact. And I'll tell you what else it is. It's a personal fact. Yea, though I walk, you are walking in the valley of the shadow of death, just like David was. Well, you know when a preacher talks about people getting ready to die, you know what happens in the human mind? …